The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. September 3, 2021
The quote "If it is not written down, it did not happen" applies to medical records and clinical documentation. It can be expanded to include clarity, consistency, and quality. Comprehensive, consistent, and complete clinical documentation is critical for home health care agencies for the quality of care to the patient and optimum reimbursement.
Home Health Care Agencies should implement Clinical Document Improvement (CDI) programs to understand that clinical documentation starts at referral and must be managed throughout patient care (Admit through Discharge). Home care agencies should identify key characteristics of the clinical documentation, come up with the right Clinical Documentation Improvement program, and use the right software platform with tools to monitor and improve the quality of clinical documentation.
CareVoyant understands the demanding requirements to manage Home and Community Based Services while managing other services like Private Duty Nursing, Non-Medical Personal Care, and Home Health. CareVoyant software platform provides tools that will help a home health care agency to effectively manage Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) along with other service lines.
Educational Session: Video - Selecting the right software for Private Duty Nursing
Private Duty Nursing is different from your traditional home health as it requires skilled care for medically fragile patients. The care is typically provided in longer shifts from 8 to 12 hours and for a limited number of patients over a longer period of time. In the Private Duty Nursing field, the nurse or LPN gets to know the patient as a person and can really become quite attached to their patient. The care provided can be in multiple settings such as the patient's home, school, or even a group home setting.
The unique nature of private duty nursing necessitates specific software features.
The Importance of Choosing the Right Clearinghouse for your Agency
There are many tasks and processes involved when capturing patient demographics and following the information through to clean claim submission. Streamlining intake and billing functions are essential to your Home Health Care operations. The use of the right Clearinghouse will help to meet your end goals of achieving operational efficiency.
Together with Waystar, CareVoyant's Home Healthcare software streamlines your workflows, empower your team to be more productive, and help your organization collect more revenue, more quickly.
Home Healthcare Industry News
What is the Choose Home Care Act of 2021?
If enacted, the Choose Home Care Act would enable eligible Medicare patients to receive extended care services as an add-on to the existing Medicare home health benefit for 30 days after hospital discharge. The act would help seriously ill individuals recover safely at home, increase patient and family satisfaction and reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19 or other infectious diseases. The act also saves the Medicare Trust Fund money by avoiding nursing home and skilled nursing facility costs for some patients who are able to receive nursing home-level care in the home.
Moving Toward Federal Long-Term Care Insurance
The WISH Act establishes a federal long-term care insurance trust fund that would pay for catastrophic long-term care for those who need it. It would also allow private insurance companies to offer affordable coverage plans for the initial years of disability. The plan would be fully paid for by a slight increase in the payroll tax: 0.3% of income for both workers and employers, or roughly $300 per year for a median-income earner.
ABOUT CAREVOYANT
CareVoyant is a leading provider of cloud-based integrated enterprise-scale home health care software that can support all home-based services under ONE Software, ONE Patient, and ONE Employee, making it a Single System of Record. We support all home care lines of service, including Home Care, Private Duty Nursing, Private Duty Non-Medical, Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), Home Health, Pediatric Home Care, and Outpatient Therapy.
CareVoyant functions – Intake, Scheduling, Clinical with Mobile options, electronic visit verification, eMAR/eTAR, Financial, Secure Messaging, Notification, Reporting, and Dashboards – streamline workflow, meet regulatory requirements, improve quality of care, optimize reimbursement, and bring operational efficiency.
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